Chapter 401

Chou Jiu resists the enslaving yellow light, and Fang Yuan beats him with strength path Gu worms while Chou Jiu can use none. The distraction fuses the yellow light into his body more deeply. Fang Yuan calls him Zeng Ah Niu and says Chen Jiu betrayed him and lives well with Shang Yan Fei. Surprised, Chou Jiu lets the rest of the light in and kneels to greet Fang Yuan as master. ^{ch. 401}

Mo Wu Tian and Xiao Mang have not arrived, and Fang Yuan has killed Tie Mu Bai, Wu Gui, Ku Mo and Wu Lan Shan, so the last choices are Wang Xiao, owner of Wu mountain, and Chou Jiu. Enslaving Chou Jiu gives the clue to the door of life and death, a forbidden land level with the river of time. Chou Jiu is also one of the four great doctors of southern border, and definitely better than Mo Wu Tian. The slave is a great burden on Fang Yuan’s soul. That is a problem for the coming Immortal Gu refinement. ^{ch. 401}

Fang Yuan asks whether Chou Jiu used poison vow Gu with Doctor Su Shou and how she lifted its restrictions. Chou Jiu, furious, answers that the Gu is mountain pledge sea oath Gu’s replacement and that Chen Jiu lacked the ability to negate it. She let the vow kill her for Shang Yan Fei, then resurrected herself with healing techniques once its strength vanished without a host. Fang Yuan, even angrier than Chou Jiu, kicks him away. ^{ch. 401}

In the previous life Chou Jiu never named the Gu, and Fang Yuan reckons knowing of it would have made him careful of Bai Ning Bing. Now Fang Yuan knows Doctor Su Shou helped her break free of her own poison vow. He sends Chou Jiu to King Xin Inheritance for undefeated hundred battles Gu. Chou Jiu is a healing Gu Master, not a refinement path master like Feng Tian Yu, and cannot help refine second aperture Gu. Getting undefeated hundred battles Gu, though, is extremely easy for him once Gu worms become usable as the blessed land weakens. ^{ch. 401}

Fang Yuan ends his slaughter and resumes refining, and the land spirit is extremely amazed at how little immortal essence he spends. Che clan and Zuo clan move out onto San Cha mountain. Xiao Mang and Mo Wu Tian also appear there. On October 24th Chou Jiu kneels and hands over undefeated hundred battles Gu, which looks like a grey stone disc. In the previous life Feng Tian Yu took King Xin Inheritance with several hundred hairy men, but Chou Jiu breaks through by force and none follow him. Fang Yuan keeps the Gu and sends Chou Jiu away with instructions, and Bai Ning Bing does not learn of it. ^{ch. 401}

Bai Ning Bing arrives at the hall with a hundred thousand dog beasts, and Fang Yuan tells her to hand her Gu worms to the land spirit. Fang Yuan, extremely confident, says he has pawn pieces among the enemies, and the land spirit hesitates but agrees, thinking of Fang Yuan’s secret identity. Bai Ning Bing guards him in the hall, sure he still trusts her. Her ally Tie Ruo Nan must force through the dogs, with Tie Bai Qi secretly on San Cha mountain as their backup. Fang Yuan sits doing nothing. When the land spirit grows anxious and slightly angry, he convinces it using his rebirth identity. ^{ch. 401}

On the peak, the blue and red light pillars are thin and King Quan Inheritance’s yellow pillar is gone. Last time only the red remained, since Feng Tian Yu took King Xin Inheritance. Chou Jiu cannot break through the final round, so two remain. Gu Masters wonder why none of the rank five Gu Masters inside has come out. Lord Xiao Mang answers that they are retained inside the blessed land, which will soon open. ^{ch. 401}